Today I’m gonna teach you to fix a chair using this.
Well, actually, this part isn’t necessary. But it sounds cool!
[whirring]
Let’s get Undone.
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♪Gerald Undone♪
♪He’s crazy♪
Hello, legion! I’m Gerald Undone,
and I have a problem with my chair.
...Today, we’re gonna fix it. OK, so the first step is,
we gotta take the legs off the chair.
OK, so all you gotta do is get a wrench of some sort.
I only have a small one, but it goes to show you
don’t need much. Bite onto the pneumatic tube part of it,
and then twist it, and lift as you twist it.
And the newer the chair, the easier that’ll come off.
If it’s an old chair, you might have to put some
WD-40 in here to kind of get some that crud off.
Now, at some point-- and ideally,
when you’re still sitting on the chair,
maybe you can get a friend or somebody to measure
how much of a rise you want the perfect position to be in.
This is gonna be fixed now, so you won’t be able to move up
and down anymore, ‘cause that’s the way I like it.
I actually don’t use these chairs to move up and down.
I kinda just want them to be in a single spot.
Anyway, so you have to measure how high you like
to sit while you’re in the chair.
Now, I know already that from this thing to
where the chair sits down is about 4 inches.
That’s about how high I want to sit up, is 4 inches.
All right, so now we’re gonna cut this PVC tube
to be the length that we need so it sits on
there like that, so when the chair sits on top,
it won’t be able to slide down anymore.
So we’re gonna cut a four-inch piece of this.
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Now, you don’t need to use a big, crazy saw like this.
You can just use a handsaw or a hacksaw, or pretty much
anything to cut through PVC, it doesn’t take that much.
But I don’t actually have any small saws around, all
I really got is this right now, so that’s what we’re gonna use!
Plus, it’s more fun and makes a lot of noise. Let’s do it.
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And remember safety first.
[saw whirring]
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Now we put it on the chair.
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[grunting]
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All right, then we just lower it all the way down...
and then... check if you got it at a good height.
... I’m pretty happy with this height,
I think it’s a good height!
And it can’t go down anymore,
so even if I press the lever down...
Can’t get it to go any lower!
And you can still raise it up a bit if you want.
It just can’t sink past the point
that you don’t want it to sink past.
The reason why I use PVC pipe-- I’ve tried different things,
I tried hose, I’ve tried tape, I’ve tried clamps.
They all seem to eventually kind of slip and slide
and break and crack or whatever, where I figured
the rigidity of the PVC pipe and the fact that it’s about
the same width as the base of the cylinder anyway means that
unless it’s gonna push the metal right through the feet
of the chair-- which, my body weight didn’t do
that before, so why would it do it now?--
It should stop it from moving. ‘Cause, there’s nothing
more annoying to me than a sinking office chair.
Now, yeah, I can’t go lower than this now,
but why would you want to? I mean, do you really want to be
that guy that’s, like, wheeling around on the floor?
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So for this, hopefully, it’ll stop me from sinking,
and it’s been a perpetual problem I’ve had
with cheap canisters. The chairs are built fine,
they’re nice material, but the canisters are always
just the same old thing, and you’re supposed to replace
them after a while, but... when the price of a canister
is equal to the price of a cheap office chair,
sometimes it’s better just to spend three bucks on PVC pipe
and fix it yourself. That’s my recommendation for that.
I hope you found this video useful. If you did, don’t forget
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whether or not you thought this was useful, or if there’s
any other sort of household projects you want me to take
a look at, I’ll keep uploading these kinds of things as I go
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Alright... I’m done.
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